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Author
Series
Amelia Peabody volume 13
Language
English
Description
Amelia and her handsome archeologist husband defy German submarines and warring Senussi to embark on another season of exploration and crime solving.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Makana, a former Sudanese police inspector forced to flee to Cairo, is now struggling to make ends meet as a private detective. In need of money, he takes a case from the notoriously corrupt mogul Saad Hanafi, owner of a Cairo soccer team, whose star player, Adil Romario, has gone missing. Soon, Makana is caught up in a mystery that takes him into the treacherous underbelly of his adopted city, encountering Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters, vengeful...
Author
Series
Mamur Zapt volume 12
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The murder capital of the world, where deaths are two a piastre.
Author
Series
Mamur Zapt volume 8
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Gareth Owen, aka the Mamur Zapt, investigates when it emerges that Cairo's senior policemen are the subject of a smear campaign.
Author
Series
Mamur Zapt volume 13
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The murder of an Italian man in backstreet 1912 Cairo spells trouble for Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, British Chief of Cairo's Secret Police, as he uncovers a possible ethnic cleansing plot and a hidden cache of weapons.
Author
Series
Mamur Zapt volume 9
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In the Cairo of 1908 the protection rackets pose a problem. And the city's cafes are experiencing a sudden upsurge in threats from various gangs. But who are they? More importantly who's behind them?
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When her mother has the chance to establish an eye clinic for the poor in Cairo, Egypt, seventeen-year-old Caroline reluctantly gives up her plans for a summer spent with her best friend and boyfriend and instead moves to Cairo, where she encounters a culture and city that enchant her and a charming boy who challenges her thoughts on love, faith, and privilege.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today. All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor now slowly decaying in the smog and bustle of downtown Cairo: a fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed "scientist of women"; a sultry, voluptuous siren; a devout young student,...
11) The Cairo affair
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, Emmett, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed. Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, has fielded his share of midnight calls. But his heart skips a beat when, this time, he hears the voice of the only woman he ever truly loved, calling to ask why her husband...
Author
Series
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi is guided by his motto, "let life be filled with holy madness to the last breath." He narrates his life story to a friend during one long night in a café in old Cairo. Through a series of bad decisions, he has lost everything: his family, his position in society, and his fortune. A man driven by his passions, he married a beautiful Bedouin nomad for love, and as a consequence pays a punishingly high price. From a life...
Author
Publisher
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Upon its initial release in Arabic in the fall of 2014, Using Life received acclaim in Egypt and the wider Arab world. But in 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison after a reader complained that an excerpt published in a literary journal harmed public morality. His imprisonment marks the first time in modern Egypt that an author has been jailed for a work of literature. Writers and literary organizations around the world rallied to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn. Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one...
15) Liberty
Author
Series
[Jake Grafton novels] volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Learning that a terrorist network has obtained easily transportable nuclear weapons and is being aided by an American traitor with access to the highest levels of government, Jake Grafton is given orders by the president to stop an attack. On a quiet park bench in Manhattan--just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center--spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear...
16) City of the dead
Author
Series
City spies volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When hackers target locations all over London, Kat leads the City Spies in testing security for the British Museum where a secret message leads them to Egypt and the ancient City of the Dead.
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